Second year students: let's practice irregular verbs!

Dear second year students we've just started learning how to talk about past experiences.
If you click on the link below you will find activities that help you learn some irregular verbs.
Try out the several study modes this tool provides and enjoy while learning!

Games and exercises - simple past 

First year students: let's review nationalities and animals

Dear first year students here I share some nice activities to review and learn better vocabulary related to nationalities and animals.
Try out the several study modes this website provides and enjoy while learning English!

Nationalities        

Animals and insects

Countries and nationalities (classes I G - I H)

Dear first year students here are some links with useful exercises to learn countries and nationalities.

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=492

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2749

Here is a song ... can you sing it?

Let's try together!

Talking about friends and best friends

These last days before Christmas holidays 3rd year students have started studying how to describe people's personality.

Here are two mind maps that can be useful to organize your presentation. Have a look at them and try to describe and important person for you in 3 minutes saying the most relevant things.

What do you usually do with your mobile phone?

This week we started studying topics connected to technology and we couldn't find a better theme to work on in the week of the 30th anniversary of the movie "Back to the future"!

Well Doc had imagined the future quite different from it is now but still something are instead similar!


I asked my 3rd year students what they usually do with their mobile and this is what they said

I'm really curious to know about their thoughts about school in 50 years but as this is was their homework I will have to wait!

Where are you from? (1st year students 15-16)

Students of classes I As and I Bs studied countries and nationalities and played games to learn how to pronounce these new words.

Here are some exercises and games to practice a bit more.

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2398





And now a video to have fun and try to sing along!

In my free time I ...

What do you usually do in your free time?
What do you like doing in your free time?
What did you do yesterday afternoon in your free time?

These are the questions we used to review free time, simple present and simple past in class 3 E last week.

Here is the mind map we saw on the IWB at school. You can download and print it.

This is a set of flashcards on free time, you can listen to the words and play some games too by clicking on the button "chose a study mode" in the left hand side at the bottom of the set.

Enjoy!

What are you going to do ...?

This week students of class 3 A of the school in Stroncone started talking about their plans and their future jobs.

Here is the mind map we used so that you can download or print it.

Following these links you can even try to do some online exercise to review the vocabulary related to "jobs" and learn new words to.

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=4335
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=4416
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2312

Describing my house

First year students are now studying vocabulary and grammar useful to describe a house, a room, a picture, etc.

Here are some exercises that will help you to learn these topics better.

There is / There are and prepositions
http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=5272#a
http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=7368#a
http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=6373
http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=7395#a





Plurals
http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=2570#a
http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=723#a
http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=7861#a







Rooms in the house
http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=2879#a
http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=7984#a
http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=20#a

Countries and nationalities (1st year students 14-15)

In classes I A, I B, I D and I G we have started studying countries and nationalities.

Following these links you can find online activities to review these vocabulary areas.
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=4925


http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2122


Here is a nice video with an old nice song

Daily Routine 13-14

This week students of class I A started studying daily routines and to do that, among other activities, they drew pictures and comics.

We also had fun playing some of the games you can find in this set of flashcards I made some time ago with the help of other students.

To play the games just click on the link below

http://quizlet.com/_6d2iu

Here are the students at work!

And here are the results!

 They really made great pictures!

WELL DONE!

What did you do during your Christmas Holidays?

I had a very interesting chat in class III A this morning. They told us what they did and it was very nice to have all of them willing to say something, or at least almost all of them.

Here is a word cloud with all the verbs we used this morning.
These verbs are in the past simple tense and what you have to do is:
- write the base form of each verb;
- make at least 5 sentences in the present
- make at least 5 sentences in the past tense.

Send me your work posting a comment.

THE FIRST 5 STUDENTS WHO POST A COMMENT WILL GET A PRIZE! 

What's the weather like?

This morning in class II A we studied vocabulary and structures about the weather.



Here is a link to an old post to review what we did and to learn a bit more.

http://funwithenglishandmore.blogspot.it/2012/11/whats-weather-like-today.html

Questions on clothes and more

This morning in class II A we reviewed clothes and, after a reading, we created some questions to ask each other to practice clothes and present progressive.
Here is a link to an old post on clothes where you find some flashcards and you can play games to learn clothes vocabulary better.

http://funwithenglishandmore.blogspot.it/2012/03/clothes-flashcards.html

This is the list of questions the students created this morning.

What do you wear when you go to a party?
What are your favourite clothes?
What are you doing?
How much o you spend on clothes?
How many pairs of jeans have you got?
What clothes do you like wearing?
Do you like casual clothes? Why?
When do you wear a dress/a skirt?
What do you wear at home?
When do you wear trainers?
How many pairs of shoes have you got?
Do you wear a uniform?
What do you wear at school?
What do you wear in summer/winter/spring/autumn?
What are you wearing?

Countries and nationalities

Gli alunni delle prime hanno studiato "Countries and nationalities" e per ripassare e imparare meglio la pronuncia ecco alcuni video.

1st year students studied "Countries and nationalities" and to review and learn the pronunciation better here you find these videos.





And here is a very nice song and I challenge you: "can you sing it?"
Let's try!

What do you usually eat for ....?

Here you find two old posts on food with videos, online exercises, flashcards to practice and learn more about food in a nice way. 

Just click on the links below.

http://funwithenglishandmore.blogspot.it/2012/02/food-food-food.html
http://funwithenglishandmore.blogspot.it/2012/10/food-and-drink.html

A school trip

Here you can find some useful verbs to talk and write about a school trip, a holiday, a special day, an experience you had in the past ....

Food and drinks (part I)

Today in class III A we reviewed food but and drink.
Clicking on these links you will find some sets of flashcards to study the vocabulary we reviewed today.

http://quizlet.com/_7fnm7
http://quizlet.com/_7fnal
http://quizlet.com/_8q6fh
http://quizlet.com/_8q62g
http://quizlet.com/_cbpio


And now some questions to practise for the exam:

What do you usually eat fro breakfast/lunch/dinner?
What is your favourite food?
How often do you go to a restaurant? What do you eat when you go to a restaurant?
What did you eat for breakfast/lunch/dinner yesterday?
What is the traditional food of your country?
What food can you cook?
Do you like shopping for food? What do you buy?
What food do you like?
What food don't you like?

Daily routine game

Yestarday morning first year students of class IA played a very special game.

The game was special because they made the cards themselves at home and they made a very good job.

So they prepared several cards with daily activities drawing the picture on one side and writing the activity on the other side.

How to play the game:

1. Students pair up and put the cards on the desk.

2. They take turns in picking up a card at a time and say a sentence using the activity shown on the card (possibly they also use an adverb of frequency and the time when they do it).

3. After a while the students form groups of four and play the game again.

4. At the end each student pick up a card and say a sentence aloud so that all the students of the class can hear it.

All the students had the chance of saying something about their daily routine and practicing vocabulary referring to these activities, adverbs of frequency and time too. They took their time and nobody was forced in anyway, some of the students also corrected the ones who made mistakes and in this way everything was easier and involving.